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California and Texas - two states in brotherly love I'd imagine.....:rofl2:

Lead definitely mellows the edge of a razor, had a few that were a little harsh after honing, couple of laps on the leaded strop and smooth as silk.

I was fixated on that Griffon strop aide, Tom...

And there you have it, from a Physician, so smoking it has been fine all along - just like I told you guys....sheesh!

Great way to refresh a razor and polish it up nice and shiny as well, wipes...

Just finished doing only 20 linen and 20 leather on the lead treated Sharpton Strop with a Palmera #14 for tomorrows shave.

Followed by 80 laps on that beautiful new Tony Miller strop - sheesh...

I've got an old Illinois 827 with the rock hard linen backing, wonder if I should hit the leather side...that strop is a monster. Two questions, would it harm the leather or finally soften it up...

Another great shave today.

Here's the conclusion I'm slowly coming to for my personal testing.

It's said that after setting the bevel - the rest is just "polishing" and refining the edge....

Actually - re-read your earlier post - so after loading up the strop again, just did 40 laps on the leaded leather side.

20 because that's what was advised, and another 20 due to the fact that I...

After another lead load onto the strop - I propose to give this razor maybe 20 on the linen and 40 on the leather. Would that be a good maintenance amount of laps before I go to the non-treated...

The edge is coming closer to matching the shave with the razors you've restored for me - one of the first things I noticed - that mellow smooth, very clean, crisp edge that always provides a great...

Sharpton Treated Strop Test - Shave #2

After two more loadings of the strop with the lead, I've done in total about another 60 laps on the linen and about 180 laps on the leather with two separate...

Since my honing skills still leave much to be desired, the way I seem to be getting the best edge, regardless of it's a refresh or the whole shebang, is I finish on the Nani 12k, which seems to...

Thanks - makes sense, very glad Sharpton started this experiment - very useful in terms of experimentation.

I found whenever I touched up a razor on the crox, the nature of the edge changed, it...

The shave went well, not quite what it would have been using my normal routine, but I ended up having to shave last night, huge early morning meeting I just got back from.

Since then, I've hit the...

After a second application, I did 40 on the lead infused linen and 60 on the lead infused leather - from now on for me in this thread - any stropping I describe will be leaded strop.

As Mike...

Just took a shot at the strop with the lead - some sanding to rough it up worked - got the leather and linen side nice and dark.

As I mentioned a few posts ago, definitely rinse the blade after...

Thanks Tom - I will get the strip that colour with the lead bar.

The chopper is about ready where I would hit it with the linen crox board I have - it's due for a touch up - so will use the linen...

Had a nice SOTD with 50 laps on the lead linen strop using the frameback razor - very smooth - but I don't know whether I've done enough laps on the linen, and I don't think my frameback is the way...

So our good friend Tom (Sharpton) has sent me a strop and a lead bar - neatly taped to expose only the lead rounded edge.

The plan is, I have rubbed the lead onto the linen side of the strop -...

Don't mind if I give this fascinating thread a bump!

Having just shaved with a an old wedge ground razor this way, it was a very enjoyable shave, and something I'm going to pursue in terms of a...